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What use is security software, NordVPN, that you have to shut off in order to use Google apps, and others? Probably some incantation that works, but I have not found it yet.

I thank MSNBC for streaming its stories as highlights - the presentation gets better all the time - very helpful to those of us without cable or some other subscription. I just wish they would date&time stamp them.

Now that Skype is going away, it is hard to remember which Instant Messaging app family, friends, and colleagues have individually decided to move to.

People keep wondering whether Trump is playing chess or checkers. I have become convinced he plays neither of these. He plays the old classic: Hearts, and the tournament is just getting underway.

Is there political control of AI engines? I was searching for a "list of all UN member states with independence movements ongoing within their borders." Copilot, had been my go to from practical to philosophy, demurred, indicated it was too sensitive. Grok obliged. Thanks Grok.

Where is proof of life for Kilmar Abrego Garcia? There are assurances, but still no witnesses.

If there is evil in the world, if there is a root cause of evil, i blame dichotomies! true or false! this or that! pink or blue! one and zero! Worlds of possibilities slaughtered before consideration.

Just idly wondering: if it is morally acceptable, in some system of morality, for the US government to take revenge against those who are mean to 47, might the Tesla Intelligence learn and decide it is best for a vehicle to take revenge against someone who is mean to Musk?

Can debris from failed launches fall in Starbase City without liability? If so, will all damages be covered by the city itself?

Now that Russia has told those demanding a cease fire to eff off, will they just wilt away or will they follow through?

As an apostate Catholic, legacy Jew baptized as a baby, a Semitic Judeopagan, who thinks Spinoza got it right, I very much appreciate #PopeLeoXIV

Biden's Cancer, yet another attack avenue for Ds, Rs, and a hungry press? Poor guy, first he is the victim of ageism & abandoned by his party, then he is the target for hatred and revenge, from all sides, and now new attacks: who knew what, when, and what should they have known!

I knew someday I would have something to appreciate 47 for. Per the law of untended consequences, I have listened to 2 days of Springsteen and Swift. Always good to have a prompt back to the touchstones.

Argued: platforms are not to blame. It's humanity at scale. In physical locales, there are one or two pervs, trolls, or pedants about. Online, many. Was told no, it's the algorithms. There is a game I play: I pick a flow I want in my feed, & see how long it takes to dominate.

Remains to be seen: MAGA, the GOP, and fellow travelers, seem ok with regulating people's bodies in many ways to fight the devil, but will they accept having their Doritos, Twinkies, and Red Licorice taken away for health? Is the Freedom to Eat as one pleases safe in the USA?

Just heard: " if you are in a coalition, and you are comfortable, then you know it is not a broad enough coalition" Bernice Johnson Reagon

In this world of security and two forms of security at every turn, I will soon be spending more time in security circus than doing whatever it was I intended to do before being diverted.

Trying to set up meetings and such for IGF week. Have seen this so many times. Reminds me of the dial-up days of WSIS. Or maybe IGF 2012 Try & try again. Good to remember old times.

Make ICANN Great Again a. In breach of our bylaws. I dislike our bylaws. Bylaws broken! b. If bylaws broken, Fix bylaws. We have ways for that. a. A broken process can’t be used to fix itself! Find a new process! b. Can bylaws be trusted that are replaced instead of fixed?

After 20 years of IGF, I start to despair that we will ever learn that participants, even if sitting silently in the dark, are not an audience, but participants. #IGF2025